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43. VALEEIANACE^. 
Order XLIII. VALERIANACE.E. 
Cal. superior ; limb various, toothed, or inconspicuous, or 
involute and ultimately resembling a pappus. Cor. tubular, 
3 — 5-lobed, unequal or irregular often spurred or gibbous at 
the base. Stam. 1 — 3, inserted in the tube, free, fewer than 
the cor.-lobes. Ovary with 1 perfect fertile cell and often 
2 abortive cells ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fr. dry. — No 
stipules. 
1. Kentranthus. Co7:5-lohed,w{thaspur. Stam. I. Fr. 
1 -celled, indehiscent, crowned with the limb of the calyx 
expanded into a feathery pappus. 
2. Valeriana. Cor. 5-lobed, gibbous but without a sjmr. 
Stain. 3. Fr. l-celled, indehiscent, crowned with the limb 
of the calyx expanded into a feathery pappus. 
3. Valerianella. Cor. 5-lobed, without a spur. Stam. 3. 
Fr'. 3-ceNed, indehiscent, crowned vdth the erect unequally 
toothed li)iib of the calyx, 2 of the cells usually empty inflated 
or filiform. 
1. Kentran'thus Neck. 
1. K. ruber (DC.) ; 1. lanceolate stalked, upper 1. ovate- 
lanceolate sessile, spur much shorter than the cor.-tube twice 
as long as the germen. — Valeriana Sm. £. B. 1531. — St. 1 — 
2 feet high. Fl. purple or' white. — Chalk-pits and old walls. 
P. VI.— IX. Red Valerian. E. I. 
*2. K. Calcitrdpa (Dufr.) ; radical 1. ovate entire, stem-1. 
pinnatifid, spur very short. — Sy. E. B. 6-65. — Eltham, Kent 
[apparently now extinct]. E. 
2. Valeria'na Linn. em. Neck. Valerian. 
1. V. ojicindlis (L.) ; /. all pinna te, Its. 9 — 21 lanceolate den- 
tate-serrate terminal one not larger than the others, st. sulcata 
solitary, fr. glabrous ovate-oblong. — E. xii. 727. St. 9. — 
St. 2—4 ft. high. Fl. flesh-coloured. Radical 1. on long stalks. 
— a. ■ Its. usually 9 — 11 near together, their anterior edge nearly 
entire, the posterior edge strongly toothed. With suckers, not 
stoles.—^. V. sanihucifolia (Mikan) ; Its. of rt.-l. ovate-acute, 
of st.-l. oblong-lanceolate, all toothed on both edges. E. B. 698. 
Term. It. of rt.-l. often slightly the largest. Stoles long. — 
Ditches, marshes and damp places. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
